CVE-2023-53070

published 2025-05-02

CVE-2023-53070: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: PPTT: Fix to avoid sleep in the atomic context when PPTT is absent Commit…

Priority P4 20 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: PPTT: Fix to avoid sleep in the atomic context when PPTT is absent

Commit 0c80f9e165f8 ("ACPI: PPTT: Leave the table mapped for the runtime usage")
enabled to map PPTT once on the first invocation of acpi_get_pptt() and
never unmapped the same allowing it to be used at runtime with out the
hassle of mapping and unmapping the table. This was needed to fetch LLC
information from the PPTT in the cpuhotplug path which is executed in
the atomic context as the acpi_get_table() might sleep waiting for a
mutex.

However it missed to handle the case when there is no PPTT on the system
which results in acpi_get_pptt() being called from all the secondary
CPUs attempting to fetch the LLC information in the atomic context
without knowing the absence of PPTT resulting in the splat like below:

| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/semaphore.c:164
| in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
| preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
| RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
| no locks held by swapper/1/0.
| irq event stamp: 0
| hardirqs last enabled at (0): 0x0
| hardirqs last disabled at (0): copy_process+0x61c/0x1b40
| softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process+0x61c/0x1b40
| softirqs last disabled at (0): 0x0
| CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1 #1
| Call trace:
| dump_backtrace+0xac/0x138
| show_stack+0x30/0x48
| dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0xb0
| dump_stack+0x18/0x28
| __might_resched+0x160/0x270
| __might_sleep+0x58/0xb0
| down_timeout+0x34/0x98
| acpi_os_wait_semaphore+0x7c/0xc0
| acpi_ut_acquire_mutex+0x58/0x108
| acpi_get_table+0x40/0xe8
| acpi_get_pptt+0x48/0xa0
| acpi_get_cache_info+0x38/0x140
| init_cache_level+0xf4/0x118
| detect_cache_attributes+0x2e4/0x640
| update_siblings_masks+0x3c/0x330
| store_cpu_topology+0x88/0xf0
| secondary_start_kernel+0xd0/0x168
| __secondary_switched+0xb8/0xc0

Update acpi_get_pptt() to consider the fact that

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 6.1.25-1 (bookworm)	linux 6.1.25-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= 0c80f9e165f8f9cca743d7b6cbdb54362da297e0 < 1318a07706bb2f8c65f88f39a16c2b5260bcdcd4	1318a07706bb2f8c65f88f39a16c2b5260bcdcd4
linux	linux	>= 0c80f9e165f8f9cca743d7b6cbdb54362da297e0 < e0c1106d51b9abc8eae03c5522b20649b6a55f6e	e0c1106d51b9abc8eae03c5522b20649b6a55f6e
linux	linux	>= 0c80f9e165f8f9cca743d7b6cbdb54362da297e0 < 91d7b60a65d9f71230ea09b86d2058a884a3c2af	91d7b60a65d9f71230ea09b86d2058a884a3c2af
linux	linux	>= 5.19.4 < 5.20	5.20
linux	linux_kernel	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.25-1	6.1.25-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.25-1	6.1.25-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.25-1	6.1.25-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.19.4 < 6.1.21	6.1.21
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.2 < 6.2.8	6.2.8

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.5 MEDIUM

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